Faculty

Katherine F. Ahern

Description

Kati’s research and teaching areas involve exploring how writing theory intersects with sound studies, materiality, and digital genres. She is especially concerned with “auditory rhetoric,” or how both nonverbal sounds (like screams and sirens) and verbal sounds (like speech and song) are used in rhetorical ways both online and “offline.” Her current research deals specifically with how writing theorists and composition and rhetoric scholars should address the study of auditory rhetoric in theory and pedagogical practice.